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PyCharm
Raised as a usability problem by 61 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 56 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Editor display lags behind typing, so keystrokes briefly outrun the screenUnreviewed
20102026- Editor lags with delayed syntax highlighting and sometimes locks up, keyboard unresponsive2021-11-21
- Text lagged behind typing, unable to keep up with keystrokes2013-09-22
- Editor lags behind typing, so keystrokes briefly outrun the display2012-07-15
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 50 complaints
- IDE so slow and laggy the commenter stopped using it2026-10-07
- PyCharm was unusable with Poetry for several months after a release2026-10-06
- IDE randomly pegs a CPU core at 100% and stays slow for hours2026-05-18
- Traversing third-party Python code in PyCharm is frustrating and requires lots of manual work2026-04-05
- Basically unusable on a Lenovo Yoga beyond plain text editing2025-10-30
- Menus were reworked and git integration became harder to use, nearly making the user revert2025-08-25
- Ruff support is missing and the only plugin is broken, making configuration a nightmare2025-06-23
- Behaves in a way that is very confusing to the user2024-11-10
- Default editor isn't very ergonomic compared to VS Code2023-09-03
- Random unusable scrolling, cells erased on execution, and frequent setup and debugger problems2023-07-27
- Paths in run configuration get auto-capitalized on exit, forcing manual reverts every time2023-07-26
- Sluggish and memory-hungry on older hardware, making interaction slow2023-06-22
- Build errors not shown prominently when installing dependencies via context option2023-04-04
- Scrolling diffs with the scroll wheel is janky and laggy, nearly unusable2023-04-02
- Laggy scrolling in diff view and settings panes lag until editor restart2023-03-31
- New versions changed the diff window the commenter relies on in their workflow2023-01-09
- PyCharm feels very sluggish to interact with2022-11-21
- Buggy multi-monitor behaviour and focus interruptions during micro-interactions in JetBrains' custom UI toolkit2022-09-25
- Took about 30 seconds to react to the first key press after launch2022-06-08
- Must manually set interpreter and project roots, then wait for indexing before editing2021-11-29
- Editor lags with delayed syntax highlighting and sometimes locks up, keyboard unresponsive2021-11-21
- So many buttons, with hover text unhelpful unless you already know the tool, and settings buried in configuration screens2021-11-04
- Window operations feel spongy and slow even after warm-up2021-10-16
- Choosing among many venvs and system Pythons is confusing and easy to get wrong2021-10-04
- Asks users to create a project and venv without explaining what they mean2021-05-13
- IDE is slow and laggy to use2021-04-17
- Lacks an SSH remote option, so remote setup is harder than in VS Code2021-04-08
- IDEs feel too slow and frustrating for quick file checks2021-03-06
- IDE's go to definition is slower than a grep-style vim search2021-02-14
- IDE windows steal focus, glitch when rendering, and look inconsistent with other apps2020-11-18
- IDE freezes for 5-10 seconds during indexing and code insight2020-10-08
- Cross-file refactoring is mostly unusable and often breaks code instead of helping2020-08-28
- PyCharm acts wonky when navigating Aurora's Python client code2020-06-09
- Can't find a way to pull, push or switch branches on submodules2020-06-02
- Cluttered with too many smart features, so the debugger was hard to figure out2020-06-02
- Can't link already-cloned remote repos to local project, forcing SFTP file syncing2020-06-02
- Handling of datetime inputs is awkward and frustrating to use2020-05-19
- Remote machine setup feels like a kludge, with confusing overlapping options for doing it2020-04-21
- PyCharm freezes for 5-10 seconds, making it effectively unusable2020-04-20
- UI is sluggish and laggy with very long startup times2018-09-09
- Type-info editors are resource hogs or hard to set up correctly2018-05-12
- Python code runs extremely slowly with debugging enabled, grinding to a halt2017-05-10
- Hard to get set up and configured so it makes sense2017-05-10
- Long videos and missing guidance leave people poking around and failing to learn features2017-03-12
- Users must peek and poke around to figure out intended usage and configuration2017-03-12
- Easy to select wrong Python interpreter at startup, confusing for novices2017-03-12
- Lacks vim key bindings, so cutting and moving text is hard without a mouse2017-02-01
- Can't figure out license duration without buying; pricing page is confusing and inaccurate2016-10-25
- Hard to figure out how to connect to a database over a unix socket2016-04-22
- Interactive features are clunky, requiring extra work to see the data2015-12-30